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Champian Fulton

Born in Oklahoma, Champian Fulton has become a world class Jazz pianist and vocalist with international acclaim. She grew up with music in the home; her mother and father (Jazz trumpeter and educator Stephen Fulton) recognized her fascination with music at an early age. The presence of her father’s musician friends, including Clark Terry and Major Holley, inspired her focus on Jazz. Her first paid musical engagement was with her own band at Clark Terry’s 75th Birthday Party; she was 10 years old. Since then, her piano and voice skills have been recognized by peers and critics as distinctive and sophisticated

Birdsong

By CHAMPIAN FULTON

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Just Friends; Yardbird Suite; This is Always; Star Eyes; Quasimodo; All God's Chillun Got Rhythm; Dearly Beloved; Out of Nowhere; If I Should Lose You; My Old Flame; Bluebird.

Drinking Again and Them There Eyes - Happy Birthday Doris Tauber

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This week we feature new releases from Fahir Atakoglu with Luciana Souza and other guest vocalists who contribute lyrics to his latest project of love songs, Carol Albert, Ran Blake with vocalist Christine Correa, plus birthday shoutouts to Doris Tauber (composer of “Them There Eyes" and “Drinking Again"), vocalists Maria Muldaur, Tom Wopat, Nancy Harms, Mel ...

Greg Abate, Charlie Persip & Steve Grossman

By JOE DIMINO

This week we open with the Greg Abate Quintet and then go on marking the Charlie Parker centennial. Champian Fulton has a new album honoring Bird, Birdsong and we hear her take on “Yardbird Suite." There are profiles of Kenny Washington, Daniel Hersog and Hal Galper. We also pay respects to musicians that left us in ...

Romance in the Dark - Celebrating Bettye LaVette's Latest Release

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

Included are new releases from Bettye LaVette (pictured), Champian Fulton, Nubya Garcia, The Moore-McColl Jazz Society and Kenny Washington plus singles from Emilie-Claire Barlow & Bocana and Sue Maskaleris with more birthday shoutouts to Charlie Parker (100!), Hilary Gardner, Naomi Moon Siegel, Russ Kassoff, Jimmy Rowles and more. Thanks for listening and please support the artists ...

Champian Fulton: Birdsong

By DAN MCCLENAGHAN

Champian Fulton was introduced to alto saxophonist Charlie Parker during her stay in the womb. The New York-based pianist/vocalist's father, Stephen Fulton held a high opinion ("The most beautiful music that ever was") of Charlie Parker With Strings (Verve, 1950), so he made a cassette tape of the recording and played it during his wife Susan's ...

Jazz Goes to the Movies and Valentine's Day Singles

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This week we feature new releases from The Coachella Valley Trio, trumpeter Rachel Therrien, pianists Lisa Hilton and Carol Albert, vocalists Robin McKelle, Kaylé Brecher, and Raquel Cepeda, plus Valentine's Day singles from Sue Maskaleris and Cynthia Scott, with birthday shout outs to Carole King, Michika Fukumori and Carmen Staaf, among others. There are also plenty ...

Christmas In My Soul

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

Includes more Christmas songs penned by women, with holiday recordings by Dave Stryker, Laila Biali, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Rebecca Angel, plus new releases by Youn Sun Nah, Chloe Perrier, Fostina Dixon, and Elena Gilliam, with birthday shout outs to Bob Dorough, Sue Maskaleris, Diane Schuur, Sean Harkness, Edith Piaf, Camille Thurman ...

Dream a little...

By CHAMPIAN FULTON

Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dream a Little Dream of Me; Fly Me to the Moon; Lullaby for Art; Darn that Dream; Pennies from Heaven; Once I Had a Secret Love; I Thought About You; Tangerine; I'd Give a Dollar for a Dime; Save Your Love for Me.

Dream a little dream...

By CHAMPIAN FULTON

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dream a little Dream of Me; Fly me to the Moon; Lullaby for Art; Darn that Dream; Pennies from Heaven; Once I had a Secret Love; I thought about You; Tangerine ; I'd give a Dollar for a Dime; Save your love for Me;